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lee1

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  1. Where are all the jobs???

    You might need to do some footwork also. I think there are some jobs that are not always posted on the hospital's websites. I just got a email for jobs at Capital Health, have you looked at their...
  2. Gustav Roll Call

    Do any of the nurses working in private hospitals get hazard pay as something extra to their paychecks for working in this type of "prone" area or at least some sort of "medical retirement" benefit to...
  3. Gustav

    Do your cops, firefighters, and yourself as a medical worker all get some sort of medical retirement benefit if you a severely injured during this crisis? We all know that cops, nonvoluntary...
  4. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    I would ONLY HOPE that all of the hospitals in New Orleans evacuate ALL of their patients and close down their operations. Then only a skeletal administrative team need to stay and watch their own...
  5. Gustav

    I would hope that your hospital would be evacuated and NOONE would be considered so emergant that they have to remain behind. Can't they learn from Katrina !!!!! I certainly would not
  6. Nnoc

    Has anyone joined this National Nursing Organization yet?? They say that they have over 60,000 members. They want to provide a National Nursing Union however at some point in the future to help...
  7. What kind of retirement benefits do you have from your empoyer? Do they include any type of medical retirement
  8. I would check with state standards for hospitals to begin with. I live in NJ and there ARE state standards------post open heart is always 1:1 and should be adjusted for acuity. Then there are the...
  9. Hi all, Just wondering what your staffing is like. Are your head nurses in staffing? If so how many patients do they take? Does your telemtry unit have another type of continuous hard wired unit...
  10. have heard the same complaint from the american computer workers. Why is it that everything has been outsourced to India???? Maybe the Indians also OWN the company??? I don't think there is a...
  11. staffing

    Did you know that many states have regs for staffing. In my state if it is telemetry than the highest that can given to you is 6 patients, no matter what shift. Being in charge requires...
  12. "Scabs"

    Why do nurses take these assignments???? Especially in this day and age when most strikes are about benefit levels, staffing ratios, working
  13. How do you deal with ICU superiority complex?

    When the ICU nurse has to float out to what at my hospital we call "clusters" she has to take care of 4 patients. Believe me you lose that attitude right away as most ICU nurses are not adept at...
  14. in my facility charge nurse must be rotated. you must also take a charge nurse orientation and be at least experienced enough to be able to take charge. at least, in my opinion, 1 year experience...
  15. If you all are talking Critical care, not step down, then YES, many states do have laws, go to your local library to look them up. NJ-----maximum 3-1, unless acuity precludes it, and there are more...
  16. International nursing students in the US

    Does this exist and what does it entitle you
  17. Registered nurses start strike August 24, 2006 at 7am at Robert Wood Johnson Univeristy Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ Nurses reject contract proposal Home News Tribune Online 08/17/06 By DAVID STEGON...
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  19. How strong is your union? Isn't that something to be proud of and this will continue to be so once nurses go back to work if the contract is voted in. How strong was your union before and how much...
  20. I wonder just how many new nurses this hospital will be able to recruit in the future looking at how they treated their own nurses and I don't mean just new
  21. So, you are not sure how you would vote if there is not much more to the package offered. You want to continue to be on strike indefinitely? To resolve this it may take many more votes? Or, take...
  22. higher pay for BSN grads?

    HMM, just wonder if they discriminate against those diploma or ADN nurses with tons of certified critical care or specialty care experience who may apply for jobs in their hospitals. What a waste of...
  23. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/middlesex/index.ssf?/base/news-1/115467083581360.xml&coll=1 Contract issue is requirement that health care procedures be done in New Brunswick Friday, August 04,...
  24. What five lines did he want to include. The ANA bill of rights for nurses includes 7
  25. Now did I imagine that it was over healthcare issues and nothing more? So, shouldn't there be only 1